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American dreaming, from G1 to Bilderberg


Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT
and TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from
the US to East Asia.
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Published time: June 11, 2015 11:31


US President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference at the conclusion of the
G7 Summit in the Bavarian town of Kruen, Germany (Reuters / Kevin Lamarque)
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SA, Ukraine, Vatican
Whats the connection between the G7 summit in Germany, President Putins visit to
Italy, the Bilderberg club meeting in Austria, and the TTIP the US-EU free trade deal
negotiations in Washington?
We start at the G7 in the Bavarian Alps rather G1 with an added bunch of junior
partners - as US President Barack Obama gloated about his neo-con induced feat;
regiment the EU to soon extend sanctions on Russia even as the austerity-ravaged EU is
arguably hurting even more than Russia.
Predictably, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande
caved in even after being forced by realpolitik to talk to Russia and jointly carve the
Minsk-2 agreement.
The hypocrisy-meter in the Bavarian Alps had already exploded with a bang right at the
pre-dinner speech by EU Council President Donald Tusk, former Prime Minister of
Poland and certified Russophobe/warmonger: All of us would have preferred to have
Russia round the G7 table. But our group is not only a group (that shares) political or
economic interests, but first of all this is a community of values. And that is why Russia
is not among us.
So this was all about civilized values against Russian aggression.
The civilized G1 + junior partners could not possibly argue whether they would
collectively risk a nuclear war on European soil over a Kiev-installed Banderastan,
sorry, Russian aggression.
Instead, the real fun was happening behind the scenes. Washington factions were

blaming Germany for making the West lose Russia to China, while adult minds in the
EU away from the Bavarian Alps blamed Washington.
Even juicier is a contrarian view circulating among powerful Masters of the Universe in
the US corporate world, not politics. They fear that in the next two to three years France
will eventually re-ally with Russia (plenty of historical precedents). And they once
again identify Germany as the key problem, as in Berlin forcing Washington to get
involved in a Prussian Mitteleuropa Americans fought two wars to prevent.
As for the Russians from President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov downwards - a
consensus has emerged; its pointless to discuss anything substantial considering the
pitiful intellectual pedigree or downright neo-con stupidity - of the self-described
Dont Do Stupid Stuff Obama administration policy makers and advisers. As for the
junior partners mostly EU minions they are irrelevant, mere Washington vassals.
It would be wishful thinking to expect the civilized values gang to propose
alternatives for the overwhelming majority of citizens of G7 nations getting anything
other than Mac-jobs, or barely surviving as hostages of finance-junkie turbo-capitalism
which only benefits the one percent.Rather easier to designate the proverbial scapegoat
Russia and proceed with NATO-infused fear/warmongering rhetoric.
Iron Lady Merkel also found time to pontificate on climate change instilling all and
sundry to invest in a low-carbon global economy. Few noticed that the alleged
deadline for full decarbonization was set for the end of the 21st century, when this
planet will be in deep, deep trouble.
G7 summit at the Elmau castle in Kruen near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
(Reuters / Christian Hartmann)

Achtung! Bilderberg!
Obamas neocon-induced newspeak continues to rule that Russia dreams of recreating
the Soviet empire. Now compare it to what President Putin is telling Europe.
Last week, Putin found time to give an interview to the Milan-based Corriere della Sera
at 2 am; the interview was published as the Bavarian Alps show went on, and ahead of
Putins June 10 visit to Italy. Russias geopolitical interests and US- Russia relations are
depicted in excruciating detail.
So Putin was a persona non grata at the G1 plus junior partners? Well, in Italy
he visited the Milan Expo; met Prime Minister Renzi and Pope Francis; reminded
everyone about the privileged economic and political ties between Italy and Russia;
and stressed the 400 Italian companies active in Russia and the million Russian tourists
who visit Italy every year.
Crucially, he also evoked that consensus; Russia had represented an alternative view as a
member of the G8, but now other powers felt they no longer needed it. The bottom

line: its impossible to have an adult conversation with Obama and friends.
And right on cue, from Berlin where he was displaying his sterling foreign policy
credentials, Jeb Bush, brother of destroyer of Iraq Dubya Bush, fully scripted by his
neocon advisers, declared Putin a bully and rallied Europe to fight, what else, Russian
aggression.
READ MORE: US attempt to lecture the Pope before Putin meeting a big
responsibility to take Kremlin
The rhetorical haze over what was really discussed in the Bavarian Alps only began to
dissipate at the first chords of the real sound of music; the Bilderberg Group meeting
starting this Thursday at the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol in Austria, only three days after the
G1 plus junior partners.
Possible conspiracies aside, Bilderberg may be defined as an ultra-select bunch of elite
lobbyists politicians, US corporate honchos, EU officials, captains of industry, heads
of intelligence agencies, European royals - organized annually in a sort of informal think
tank/policy-forming format, to advance globalization and all crucial matters related to
the overall Atlanticist agenda. Call it the prime Atlanticist Masters of the Universe
talkfest.
To make things clear not that they are big fans of transparency - the composition of the
steering committee is here. And this is what they will be discussing in Austria.
Naturally they will be talking about Russian aggression (as in who cares about failed
Ukraine; what we need is to prevent Russia from doing business with Europe).
Naturally they will be talking about Syria (as in the partition of the country, with the
Caliphate already a fact of post-Sykes-Picot life).
Naturally they will be talking about Iran (as in lets do business, buy their energy and
bribe them into joining our club).
But the real deal is really the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
the alleged free trade deal between the US and the EU. Virtually all major
business/finance lobbyists for the TTIP will be under the same Austrian roof.
And not by accident Bilderberg starts one day before fast track presidential authority
is to be debated at the US Congress.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets Pope Francis during a private meeting at
Vatican City, June 10, 2015 (Reuters / Gregorio Borgia)

WikiLeaks and a ton of BRICS


Enter WikiLeaks, with what in a fairer world would be a crucial spanner in the works.
The fast track authority would extend US presidential powers for no less than six years;

that includes the next White House tenant, which might well be The Hillarator or Jeb
Putin is a bully Bush.
This presidential authority to negotiate dodgy deals includes not only the TTIP but also
the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA).
WikiLeaks, just in time, published the Healthcare Annex to the secret draft
Transparency chapter of the TPP, along with each countrys negotiating position. No
wonder this draft is secret. And theres nothing transparent about it; its an undisguised
hold-up of national healthcare authorities by Big Pharma.
The bottom line is that these three mega-deals TTP, TTIP and TiSA are the ultimate
template of what could be politely described as global corporate governance, a
Bilderberg wet dream. The losers: nation-states, and the very concept of Western
democracy. The winners: mega-corporations.
Julian Assange, in a statement, succinctly nailed it It is a mistake to think of the TPP as
a single treaty. In reality there are three conjoined mega-agreements, the TiSA, the TPP
and the TTIP, all of which strategically assemble into a grand unified treaty, partitioning
the world into the West versus the rest. This 'Great Treaty' is described by the Pentagon
as the economic core to the US military's 'Asia Pivot.' The architects are aiming no
lower than the arc of history. The Great Treaty is taking shape in complete secrecy,
because along with its undebated geostrategic ambitions it locks into place an aggressive
new form of transnational corporatism for which there is little public support."
So this is the real Atlanticist agenda the final touches being applied in the arc spanning
the G1 + added junior partners to Bilderberg (expect a lot of crucial phone calls from
Austria to Washington this Friday). NATO on trade. Pivoting to Asia excluding Russia
and China. The West vs. the rest.
Now for the counterpunch. As the show in the Bavarian Alps unrolled, the first BRICS
Parliamentarian Forum was taking place in Moscow ahead of the BRICS summit in
Ufa next month.
Neocons with Obama in tow - knock themselves out dreaming that Russia has become
isolated from the rest of the world because of their sanctions. Since then Moscow has
signed major economic/strategic contracts with at least twenty nations. Next month,
Russia will host the BRICS summit 45 percent of the worlds population, a GDP
equivalent to the EU, and soon bigger than the current G7 as well as the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, when India and Pakistan, currently observers,
will be accepted as full members.
G1 plus junior partners? Bilderberg? Get a job; youre not the only show in town, any
town.
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